Software Delivery in Small Batches

This episode completes the discussion on the first capability: system design and operation by identifying the four levels of system design and their associated checks. Part six of a ten-part series on the 2009 book "The High Velocity Edge" by Steven Spear.

The High-Velocity Edge on Small Batches

• ☕️ Part One: Introduction
• ☕️ Part Two: The Four Capabilities at Alcoa
• ☕️ Part Three: The Four Capabilities in the nuclear reactor program
• ☕️ Part Four: Kanban & Jidoka
• ☕️ Part Five: Systems Thinking
• ☕️ Part Six: System Design & Operation (👈🏻 you are here)
• ☕️ Part Seven: Problem-Solving
• ☕️ Part Eight: Knowledge Sharing
• ☕️ Part Nine: Reflections
• ☕️ Part Ten: Interview with Dr. Steven Spear 

Links

• 📘 The High-Velocity Edge
• The Story of Sakichi Toyoda
• Biography of Taiichi Ohno

This episode continues discussing system design and operations with a focus on using "jidoka" to build in quality control into systems. Part five of a ten-part series on the 2009 book The High-Velocity Edge by Steven Spear.

The High-Velocity Edge on Small Batches

• ☕️ Part One: Introduction
• ☕️ Part Two: The Four Capabilities at Alcoa
• ☕️ Part Three: The Four Capabilities in the nuclear reactor program
• ☕️ Part Four: Kanban & Jidoka
• ☕️ Part Five: Systems Thinking (👈🏻 you are here)
• ☕️ Part Six: System Design & Operation
• ☕️ Part Seven: Problem-Solving
• ☕️ Part Eight: Knowledge Sharing
• ☕️ Part Nine: Reflections
• ☕️ Part Ten: Interview with Dr. Steven Spear 

Links

• 📘 The High-Velocity Edge
• The Story of Sakichi Toyoda
• Biography of Taiichi Ohno
• Small Batches #11: Preflight Checks

Part four of a ten-part series on the 2009 book The High-Velocity Edge by Steven Spear. This episode introduces the two pillars of the first capability: design systems to reveal problems. The first pillar is Taiichi Ohno's "kanban", or pull-based, philosophy on system design. The second pillar is Sakichi Toyoda's "jidoka", or self-regulation, philosophy to identify problems when they happen.

The High-Velocity Edge on Small Batches

• ☕️ Part One: Introduction
• ☕️ Part Two: The Four Capabilities at Alcoa
• ☕️ Part Three: The Four Capabilities in the nuclear reactor program
• ☕️ Part Four: Kanban & Jidoka  (👈🏻 you are here)
• ☕️ Part Five: Systems Thinking
• ☕️ Part Six: System Design & Operation
• ☕️ Part Seven: Problem-Solving
• ☕️ Part Eight: Knowledge Sharing
• ☕️ Part Nine: Reflections
• ☕️ Part Ten: Interview with Dr. Steven Spear

Links

• 📘 The High-Velocity Edge
• The Story of Sakichi Toyoda
• Biography of Taiichi Ohno
• Discovering Your Way to Greatness: How Finding and Fixing Faults is the Path to Perfection (talk)

This episode tells how Admiral Hyman Rickover demonstrated the four capabilities while creating the US Navy's nuclear reactor (or NR) program. Part three of a ten-part series on the 2009 book The High-Helocity Edge by Steven Spear.

The High-Velocity Edge on Small Batches

• ☕️ Part One: Introduction
• ☕️ Part Two: The Four Capabilities at Alcoa
• ☕️ Part Three: The Four Capabilities in the nuclear reactor program  (👈🏻 you are here)
• ☕️ Part Four: Kanban & Jidoka
• ☕️ Part Five: Systems Thinking
• ☕️ Part Six: System Design & Operation
• ☕️ Part Seven: Problem-Solving
• ☕️ Part Eight: Knowledge Sharing
• ☕️ Part Nine: Reflections
• ☕️ Part Ten: Interview with Dr. Steven Spear

Links

• 📘 The High-Velocity Edge
• Dr. Steve Spear's 2019 and 2020 DevOps Enterprise Summit Talks on Rapid, Distributed, Dynamic Learning (podcast)

This episode demonstrates the four capabilities through Alcoa's commitment to changing its safety culture. Part two of a ten-part series on the 2009 book The High-Velocity Edge by Steven Spear.

The High-Velocity Edge on Small Batches

• ☕️ Part One: Introduction
• ☕️ Part Two: The Four Capabilities at Alcoa  (👈🏻 you are here)
• ☕️ Part Three: The Four Capabilities in the nuclear reactor program
• ☕️ Part Four: Kanban & Jidoka
• ☕️ Part Five: Systems Thinking
• ☕️ Part Six: System Design & Operation
• ☕️ Part Seven: Problem-Solving
• ☕️ Part Eight: Knowledge Sharing
• ☕️ Part Nine: Reflections
• ☕️ Part Ten: Interview with Dr. Steven Spear

Links

• 📘 The High-Velocity Edge
• The Topography of Problems and the Importance of Distributed Problem Solving (podcast)

Part one of a nine-part series on the 2009 book The High-Velocity Edge by Steven Spear. 

This episode demonstrates how complex systems fail through the story of Mrs. Grant and the four capabilities to overcome such failures.

The High-Velocity Edge on Small Batches

• ☕️ Part One: Introduction  (👈🏻 you are here)
• ☕️ Part Two: The Four Capabilities at Alcoa
• ☕️ Part Three: The Four Capabilities in the nuclear reactor program
• ☕️ Part Four: Kanban & Jidoka
• ☕️ Part Five: Systems Thinking
• ☕️ Part Six: System Design & Operation
• ☕️ Part Seven: Problem-Solving
• ☕️ Part Eight: Knowledge Sharing
• ☕️ Part Nine: Reflections
• ☕️ Part Ten: Interview with Dr. Steven Spear

Links

• 📘 The High-Velocity Edge
• Creating High-Velocity Organizations (talk)
• Discovering Your Way to Greatness: How Finding and Fixing Faults is the Path to Perfection (talk)
• The Pursuit of Perfection: Dominant Architectures and Dynamics (podcast)

Enjoy this meme-ready episode with Bryan Finster.

Bryan Finster leads a DevOps dojo at a Fortune 50 enterprise where he helps teams deliver to production daily. This episode continues recurring discussion topics on the post: integrated vs isolated development environments, software architecture and team owner, and their relationship to delivering to production daily. 

Check out episodes #15 (for philosophy) and #22 (for boundaries) for more background on the ideas in this conversation.

Bryan s Links

• Twitter
• LinkedIn
• mountebank - over the wire test doubles
• Blog
• Prism: Turn OpenAPI spec into a running server
• Dredd: HTTP API Testing Framework

Adam's Links

• Small Batches #15: Dev Environments
• Small Batches #22: Service Boundaries

Adam welcomes Dave Mangot to the show for a book discussion. The classic leadership and management book is "The Five Dysfunctions of a Team". Adam & Dave discuss the dysfunctions through a lens of software delivery, DevOps, and SRE.

Dave Mangot's Links

• The Goal 30th Anniversary Edition
• Just Culture: Restoring Trust and Accountability in Your Organization, Third Edition
• The Three Principles Underpinning DevOps
• Inno-Versity Presents: "Greatness" by David Marquet
• The Manager's Path (Book)
• People not Tech
• What Google Learned from Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team

Adam's Links

• The Cognitive Neuroscience of Empathy - You're a DevOps Natural

Level up your soft skills with this episode on "Agile Conversations". The episode begins with a short introduction to the book then dives into the content with the authors. 

Topics include: "TDD for People", The four R's, The trust conversation, the fear conversation, the why conversation, the commitment conversation, and the accountability conversation.

Adam Hawkins' Links

• Troubleshooting Agile Podcast

Jeffrey Fredrick's Links

• Agile Conversations Book
• London Organizational Learning Meetup

Douglas Squirrel's Links

• Free Conversational Dojo Kit 

Adam welcomes Carmen de Ardo to the show. Carmen is a senior VSM strategist at TaskTop and author of numerous books on value streams, leaderships, DevOps, and product transformation.

This episode is a response to a listener request for an episode on value streams. So we start from the beginning of "what is a value stream" and work up towards toward value stream mapping, the flow framework, and peak of continuous improvement.

Adam's  Links

• DOES15 - Carmen DeArdo - How DevOps is Enabling Lean Application Development
• The Case for Value Stream Architecture - Mik Kersten & Carmen DeArdo 
• Project to Product: Practical Realities at a Large Scale Enterprise - Nationwide & Tasktop
• The Quest for Accelerated Delivery - Nationwide
• Value Stream Management: Treat Your Pipeline as Your Most Important Product
• Small Batches #21: The Flow Framework with Dr. Mik Kersten
• Small Batches #9: The Four Types of Work

Carmen's Links

• Standing on Shoulders: A leader’s guide to digital transformation
• Standing on Shoulders Podcast Edition
• The Age of Value Stream Management
• Moving to Project to Product